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Title: Discipleship Across the Lifespan


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Church History 1 Apostles to Pre-Reformation
May 14, 2013 Schisms, Barbarians Gregory the
Great
Lakeside Institute of Theology Ross Arnold,
Spring 2013
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  • Church History 1 (TH1)
  • Introduction to Church History
  • Apostles to Catholic Christianity
  • Persecution, Heresies the Book
  • Emperors, Bishops, Saints Intellectuals
  • Councils, Monks, Popes Augustine
  • Schisms, Barbarians Gregory the Great
  • Charlemagne, Cathedrals, Crusades Scholastics
  • Poverty, Inquisition, Babylonian Captivity
    Final Exam

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Augustine of Hippo
  • Born AD 354 in Tagaste, North Africa. His
    mother, Monica, was a fervent Christian his
    father a casual pagan.
  • Augustine received the best possible education,
    eventually studying rhetoric in Latin-speaking
    Carthage. In addition to studies, Augustine
    pursued other pleasure eventually having a
    child (Adeodatus) by his mistress.
  • From reading Roman philosopher Cicero, Augustine
    decided pursuit of truth was his life goal. He
    studied Manicheism a neo-Gnostic dualistic
    Persian religion that was pointedly
    anti-Christian for years, then later became a
    Neoplatonist. He moved to Rome, then Milan as a
    professor.
  • Neoplatonism answered his doubts about evil and
    the preaching of Ambrose of Milan satisfied his
    doubts about the Bible. He eventually became a
    Christian, then returned to North Africa.
  • In 391 he visited the town of Hippo and was made
    first a minister and then a bishop, rather
    against his will.
  • He started writing theology, quickly becoming the
    most influential theologian in the Latin-speaking
    churches.
  • He argued in refutation of Manicheaism,
    especially emphasizing the freedom of the will.
    (This would be critical later, in the
    Reformation.)
  • He also battled against Donatism, the divisive
    controversy that was centered there in North
    Africa.
  • But his greatest theological stand was against
    the Pelagians.

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Barbarians and the Western Empire
  • AD 378 Emperor Valens is killed when Gothic
    rebels win the Battle of Adrianople, near the
    border of Greece and Bulgaria.
  • AD 410 Alaris and the Visigoths take and sack
    Rome.
  • AD 430 as Augustine is dying, the Vandals
    beseiged Hippo.
  • AD 439 Vandals take Carthage.
  • AD 455 Vandals sack Rome.
  • AD 476 Odoacer of the Heruli deposed last Roman
    Emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
  • The fall of the Western Roman Empire created a
    number of independent kingdoms

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Barbarians and the Western Empire
  • AD 378 Emperor Valens is killed when Gothic
    rebels win the Battle of Adrianople, near the
    border of Greece and Bulgaria.
  • AD 410 Alaris and the Visigoths take and sack
    Rome.
  • AD 430 as Augustine is dying, the Vandals
    beseiged Hippo.
  • AD 439 Vandals take Carthage.
  • AD 455 Vandals sack Rome.
  • AD 476 Odoacer of the Heruli deposed last Roman
    Emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
  • The fall of the Western Roman Empire created a
    number of independent kingdoms.
  • AD 496 Merovian King Clovis converts is
    baptized on Xmas day.
  • AD 516 Frankish King Sigismund converts to
    Trinitarian Christianity.
  • AD 589 Visigoth King Recared converts to Nicene
    orthodoxy.
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